RODEO
Type: adrenaline-libertarian drama
Director: Lola Quivoron. With Julie Ladru, Yannis Lafki, Antonia Buresi, Cody Schroeder, Louis Sotton, Junior Correia, Ahmed Hamdi, Dave Nsaman
A woman in a world of men, determined not so much to be accepted, but rather to put herself on their level, to compete with them. This is the challenge of Julie known as “The Unknown” and this is the bet of Lola Quivoron who built her feature film debut on a young motorcycle enthusiast. Not traditional motorcycles, however, but cross ones with which you challenge each other on urban circuits to demonstrate your skill, above all by wheeling up on the rear wheel alone.
The first part of the film, the most surprising, is almost a documentary on these extreme practices (in English cross-bitumen) with the protagonist who tries to be accepted but without ever wanting to concede anything, rebellious and uncompromising.
Then she is admitted into a group and the film becomes a kind of adrenaline-pumping noir because the garage where everyone works is in fact a cover for the theft of motorbikes they carry out to order.
Julie Ladru is the protagonist of the film by Lola Quivoron.
Slowly the character of the protagonist reveals something of his mysterious past, of her rejection of all femininity, while the film retains her desire to convey to the viewer the dream of freedom that every centaur pursues and for which Julie is willing to pay any price. Even challenging fate.
For those who have dreamed of escaping on a motorbike at least once.
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